Beneath the Rising Tide - Of Divinity and Damnation (2010)

Genre: Death Metal/Deathcore (maybe)
For Fans Of: The Red Shore (we dont get that one often), Thy Art is Murder, Cannibal Corpse (just check em out u pussies dont call em deathcore fags)

Woah 2010 is here (for a few months that is) and DAMN this has been a good year for music so far with a lot of releases domininating the band previous materials we seem to be heading into a good year for music, and possibly Deathcore even getting respect. Now here we have a rather newer band that I believe started in 2008 and has released their first EP. The style however can be more compared to Death Metal for it concentrates more on technical riffing rather then silly one note breakdowns.

The album starts off with Blacklands which is probably one of the most kickass song titles I've ever heared I think of Lord of the Rings in the mordor area. You'd think it'd be a silly intro cuz of the short song length right? Nope the band says fuck your stupid intro shite were making this a song. Then comes on Unhallowed Abortion which is the song that got me into this release the riffing is catchy as hell and it gives me this really creepy atmosphere that I can't figure out what it is. It very much reminds me of the new Red Shore album Lost Verses just without the symphonic keyboards to add onto it. Then we got Thy King, Thy Conqueror which I don't dig quite as much as the other tracks but the rest of the album kicks major ass the whole way through. The songs are also far from repetetive which is a nice change for this style of music that seems to bore the listener after 3 or 4 songs. One thing I gotta point out his how epic the song titles are I mean we got Arise the Bretheren, the other two I mentioned and Hollow Majesty which makes me assume the lyrics talk about epic battles instead of silly topics like female troubles.

Now that I am done fapping to the album structure lets talk about the band instruments n such. The vocals are absolutly perfect and spot on and I cannot find anything wrong with them. He uses multiple style one of them being a really low growl which sounds exactly like The Red Shore's frontman which is not a bad thing since we don't get that style very often at all. His screams range from mid ranged to really high which I can't really compare to a specific band, and he also even uses a deep guttural brutal death metal style growl on rare occasions. The pig squeals are there too and are done well but don't come up often enough to really notice at all. Now we got the guitars which deliver the atmosphere of the record and the brutal catchiness. The fuckers sure can play their stuff while I don't remember more then one solo on here they most of the time resort to complex technical riffing rather then silly one-note breakdowns. The Bass I can actually hear preatty well too and it gets its job done of adding a darker tone to the record. The Drums I havn't payed all that much attention too but they deffinently aren't generic double-bass the whole time BS that we get a lot these days.

Really I have to admit I cannot find anything wrong with this cd at all exept that maybe its not anything truly new. It just happens to do everything right and damn well I might add to this also. I guess I could say this would work a little better if it ended more climatically and was a full length instead of an EP because this band sounds like they have been doing it for years. Some will say im sucking up to them because they asked me to review this but fuck off I love this band.

Pros:
Sick Riffing
Excellent Vocals
Not repetitive
Solid Effort
Gives you this truly epic concept that will make you use your imagination

Cons:
Kids who only like generic one-note breakdown music this isn't for you
"They're Deathcore Faggots"
They're wearing Cannibal Corpse? OMG POSURSS!!!!!!!!!!11111elevenoneone

Overall: 9/10
Buy?: It dosn't cost too much so go ahead you have no choice GET IT!